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2020 Racines, Sanford & Benedict Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, USA

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful (Drink 2023 - 2031)
Jancis Robinson MW
17/20
Antonio Galloni
90/100
Clive Pursehouse
94/100
Product: 20208049809

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Description

Sanford & Benedict vineyard is the Sta Rita Hills' highest calling for Pinot Noir grapes. Made from three parcels within the site, including some own-rooted vines from 1971. This Pinot Noir is indelibly marked by pungent and stirring floral aromatics accented by frankincense, leather and smoke. The palate shows a generosity of fruit, but a significant amount of the whole cluster gives this wine savoury edges. Notes of crushed basalt, thyme and wild sumac envelop a core of blue and red fruits. Clove, five-star anise and a hint of cassia bark accompany this wine through its finish, measured in 5-minute intervals.

Drink 2023 - 2035

Clive Pursehouse, Decanter.com (August 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Alcohol % 13%
Maturity Ready - youthful (2023 - 2031)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Racines Wines

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW 17/20

Deep clay on gravels. 60% from the original dry-farmed plantings that date to the early 1970s. Tasted from a wax-sealed magnum.

Transparent garnet. Rich and floral. Very aromatic, lifted and transparent. Firm finish.

Drink 2024 - 2035
Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Aug 2023)
Antonio Galloni 90/100

The 2020 Pinot Noir Sanford & Benedict Vineyard is awkward. The strong stem influence that marks these Pinots is not as pronounced from a flavour perspective, but the mid-palate is hollow and lacking in the suppleness that is such a signature of S&B. Perhaps that will come in time. Dark cherry, plum, lavender, spice and dried herbs emerge, but with great reticence.

Drink 2023 - 2028
Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com (Aug 2022)
Clive Pursehouse 94/100

Sanford & Benedict vineyard is the Sta Rita Hills' highest calling for Pinot Noir grapes. Made from three parcels within the site, including some own-rooted vines from 1971. This Pinot Noir is indelibly marked by pungent and stirring floral aromatics accented by frankincense, leather and smoke. The palate shows a generosity of fruit, but a significant amount of the whole cluster gives this wine savoury edges. Notes of crushed basalt, thyme and wild sumac envelop a core of blue and red fruits. Clove, five-star anise and a hint of cassia bark accompany this wine through its finish, measured in 5-minute intervals.

Drink 2023 - 2035
Clive Pursehouse, Decanter.com (Aug 2023)

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